How to Use paper-thin in a Sentence

paper-thin

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• This is a slightly bigger option from the brand, and it's made from paper-thin nylon stuffed with scrap yarn.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2023
• This is a slightly bigger option from the brand, and it's made from paper-thin nylon stuffed with scrap yarn.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
• Lily wore paper-thin sheer gloves that reached past her elbows, as well as sheer black tights underneath her dress.
  — Seventeen, 25 May 2023
• The devices can read signals emitted by paper-thin RFID tags attached to the price tags on clothes and can track the location of shoppers in the store.
  — Liz Young, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023
• Crape myrtles, sycamores, paper birches and a few other species just happen to do it in large sheets of paper-thin bark.
  — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2024
• The cortador places the leg in a special holder and uses a long knife (the cuchillo jamonero) to create paper-thin slices.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2023
• Adding to the problem: Airline seats are almost paper-thin, which means the passenger in front of you feels every single tap.
  — Christopher Elliott, Dallas News, 5 July 2023
• After the dumplings are placed into bamboo baskets and steamed, the broth melts, forming a rich, fatty soup within a pliant, paper-thin wheat skin.
  — Tiffany May, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• The crabs — almost always domestic blue crabs — molt their hard outer shells in the spring, leaving them with paper-thin exoskeletons.
  — Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• However, it's crafted of lightweight, paper-thin nylon filled with pillowy down that could serve you on the mountain, finished with a high neck and snap closures to conceal the front zipper.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2023
• The paper-thin plot is just enough to keep this episode plodding from scene to scene, and despite being based around a hostage situation, the stakes never feel particularly high.
  — WIRED, 21 June 2023
• In the absence of novelty, the franchise’s flaws — schlocky dialogue, uninspired CGI, paper-thin baddies — are glaring.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• But of course that would be impossible because, in the manner of goods for the stealth-wealth set, the clothes were made of whisper-light woolens, finespun cotton, materials like doeskin or paper-thin suede.
  — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• Neus Coronado, one of three full-time slicers García employs, can produce a tidy pinwheel of uniform, nearly paper-thin slices in just a few minutes.
  — Bonnie Berkowitz, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
• The siblings cared for one another, sure, but their rivalry ran deep — and as the final plot twist proved, their mutual protection pact was always paper-thin.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 29 May 2023
• The MonsterVerse is guilty of this with its rotating cast of paper-thin characters elevated solely by the sheer charisma of its actors.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2023
• When the Maharajah gets kidnapped Nick and Audrey leap into detective mode, which winds up taking them and the key guests to Paris, adding to the travelogue aspect without doing anything to help with the paper-thin plot.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• On the phone, the surgeon, who has operated on opera singers with symptoms like mine, described a possible course of treatment: a procedure to punch small holes in the paper-thin bones of my sinuses to widen the passageways.
  — Dessa Dessa Tanya Pérez Alec K. Redfearn, New York Times, 12 June 2024
• The arrangement nods to Japan with the addition of paper-thin slices of Wagyu beef, but that roiling ocean of nutty, tangy, supersharp cheese, a pure evocation of Spain, would be just as delicious without any meat at all.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2023
• That Hollywood creation is mere paper-thin pleasure, a nonsense candy corn of a thing that barely features any surprise, idiosyncrasy, or respect for the viewer.
  — Keep Mario Weird, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2023
• These paper-thin sheets are gentle to the skin and free from toxins, providing a natural solution to eliminate dirt from various fabrics.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• Regulars flip for the homemade tortillas, paper-thin and well-seasoned fajitas and decadent queso flameado.
  — Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 15 Apr. 2023
• The team was able to create paper-thin sheets of mycelium from edible Basidiomycota fungi in containers of sugary sweet molasses.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 20 July 2023
• Her pot stickers — a dozen to an order (because that’s the number traditionally served in China), their paper-thin skin blistered from pan searing — are a comfort food with universal appeal.
  — Jason Rezaian, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
• Paleontologists have identified more than 200 species of pterosaurs, including some with paper-thin bones and long, skinny fingers.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2023
• The paper-thin staffing situation often left youths isolated and with limited access to schooling or therapy.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Nearly all of Ted Lasso’s many flaws—its lack of conflict, its paper-thin characters, the general unbelievability of both its premise and narrative structure—stem from this origin story.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
• What had been a mildly scenic if paper-thin diversion turns into the kind of joint whose narrative big reveals also trigger big laughs — with considerable help from hackneyed dialogue and some awkward acting moments.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
• By January, another talented freshman joined the fold, as Vincent Iwuchukwu returned from cardiac arrest to help fortify a paper-thin frontcourt.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2023
• Not only is there greater polarization and intransigence in Congress, but the paper-thin Republican margin, the personalities of key players, and the outside pressures on both parties make compromise harder to reach.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024